Browse Exhibits (3 total)
Under Review: Football and Collective Identity
This exhibit explores the relationship between college football and different notions of collective identity at North Carolina State College in the 1930s.
Under Review: Football and the Well-Rounded Citizen
This exhibit will focus on how the 1936 Anderson-Sermon football controversy shed light on the educational and character-building role that collegiate football and athletics were thought to play on college campuses.
Under Review: The Business of Football
This exhibit examines the 1936-1937 Anderson-Sermon controversy at North Carolina State College as representative of the growing commercialization of college football. Many of the issues associated with this controversy like recruiting, scholarships, and sponsorships for student players remain debated issues in today's college football programs.
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The Good Wife Diploma: Civic Contributions of State's Mates
Like many other women's organizations in 1960s America, State's Mates maintained a strong civic commitment, despite their characterization as a...